Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Where does the excess charge go?

Here is the current version of the slides for a talk, "Charge redistribution near oxygen vacancies in cerium oxides", that I am giving tomorrow in the Chemistry Department at University of Washington.




The main point of the talk is that the standard model of charge localisation (pictured above) is incorrect. A detailed discussion is contained in a review co-authored with Elvis Shoko and Michael Smith.

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